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private letter

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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 3279
Find spot: Arsinoite nome, Ptolemaic Egypt (?) (TC), Egypt approx. site location
Period: May 20, 37 B.C. (?)
Date: May 20, 37 B.C. (?)
Date range: 37 BCE – 37 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 7 x 21 cm.']
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Description

The text is a business letter, in which Diogenes has written to Dionysios to urge him about a business matter involving two donkeys for which Pasis is the donkey driver - a matter which Diogenes claims he and Dionysios have already discussed in person at a previous meeting in the village of Theogenes.

Connections

Found at Arsinoite nome

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 5042 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.1921 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.coll.youtie;1;17 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.collyoutie.1.17 tier-1
HGV-Text 5042 tier-1

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